Application Letter
May 30, 2022
Dear Class of English 301,
My name is Madison Strasman and I am currently in the process of obtaining a bachelor of arts in human geography aimed to graduate in June of 2023 along with a real estate license effective in February of 2023. I am constructing this letter of application for the team of writers in English 301 for the summer 2022 term as posted on UBC Blogs.
My professional interest consists of real estate and architecture. My interests are exhibited in April of 2020, in which I won a competition by HUBBUB using a student project with the goal of providing a mobile application for public use to bring awareness and familiarity towards green infrastructure around Vancouver, British Columbia. In this project, students were asked to prepare a report to include purpose, budget, scope, and actors as well as a three-minute presentation to submit to a panel of judges. This project required me to prepare a formal document which would require external research and my own concepts and ideas, as well as formatting, and editing which allowed me to practice these skills to bring an innovation to life using words. The presentation was a summarization of the project, and I gained the skill of consolidating a large-scale proposal into a summary while isolating only the important details.
In 2019 I volunteered with Reading Buddies to assist a grade six ESL student to allow her to feel more confident in her English through reading exercises. With this I used techniques such as vowel sounds, sentence structure, consonant sounds, and writing and speech to prepare her for more complex books and novels. This has given me the opportunity to develop new methods of understanding and learning English through a different lens. This has been a challenge for me to be able to simplify and teach in a way where the opposing party understands. Therefore, I lack the ability to externalize and communicate ideas and concepts.
With learning, I believe that experience is the most important method to successfully grow and improve. I believe that to successfully learn, it is crucial to make errors to acknowledge and be able to recognize wrong from right. With consideration of my strengths, weaknesses, and learning philosophy, please email me at mmstrasman@gmail.com if you feel we would make a strong writing team.
Sincerely,
Madison Strasman